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Summary of Reports

 Commerce One

 Corechange

 Epicor

 glue:

 Lawson

 NetManage

 PeopleSoft

 SAP

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Management Briefings

 Market Overview | Part 2 | Part 3

 Expert Opinion: Linda Wooldridge of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

 View from the Top: Andy Fawcett, multinational industrial gases supplier BOC | Part 2

 Business Benefits: PA Consulting’s Conrad Thompson | Part 2

 Web Services: David Sewell, IT consultancy Citihub | Part 2

 E-Security: Consultant Paul Cronin | Part 2

 Employee Portals: Pecaso’s Simon Olive reports | Part 2

 Process Sector: Aveva Consulting’s Neil McPhater | Part 2

 Data Management: Martin Pike of Stilo | Part 2

 Portal Development: Imam Hoque of e-business consultancy Rubus | Part 2

 Online Services: Paul Sutcliffe of In-Form Consult | Part 2

 Reader Symposium: Last month’s annual Conspectus readers’ symposium tackled the theme of ‘Facing the Future’. Steve Fox reports

UK companies are starting to make money from their e-business technology. Pat Sweet reports on our latest survey results.

Payback time - Part 3 | Part 1 | Part 2

Significantly, the next biggest worry is cost, cited by 82% – a much greater proportion than the 50% who identified it as a cause for concern last time around. Undoubtedly difficult economic conditions are causing companies to be more anxious about IT investment in general, and e-business spend and returns in particular.

Both of these factors outweigh other challenges, such as handling the constraints of legacy systems (58%), re-aligning business processes (58%), or tackling either the associated business upheaval (28%) or users’ resistance to technology (26%).

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